page_title: List of University of Dhaka alumni and faculty
section_title: Arts, culture and literature
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Dhaka alumni and faculty / Arts, culture and literature
caption_attribution_description: English: Rafiqun Nabi is a very popular cartoonist in Bangladesh and creator of famous cartoon character "tokai"
context_page_description: This is a list of University of Dhaka alumni and faculty members.
context_section_description: Abdul Kadir, poet, awarded Ekushey Padak (1976) and Independence Day Award (1983)
  Abdul Mannan Syed, poet, author and researcher
  Abdullah Abu Sayeed, Bangladeshi writer, television presenter, organizer and activist
  Abdullah Al Mamun, Bangladeshi playwright, actor and filmmaker
  Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, a major songwriter of contemporary Bengali, poet, essayist, critic and presenter
  Abu Zafar Obaidullah, poet and civil servant
  Abul Fazal, Bangladeshi writer and educationist
  Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi poet, novelist, writer, critic, translator and intellectual
  Ahsan Habib, Bangladeshi cartoonist, writer and editor of Unmad, a satire magazine
  Akhteruzzaman Elias, Bengladeshi novelist and short-story writer
  Alamgir Kabir, filmmaker; three of his feature films are featured in the British Film Institute's list of "Top 10 Bangladeshi Films"
  Aly Zaker, actor, director, businessman, Bangladeshi freedom fighter and occasional writer and photographer
  Anwar Pasha, author of 'Rifle, Roti, Awrat (1971), the first novel set on the Bangladesh War of Independence, brutally murdered by Pakistani Army and local collaborators on 14 December 1971 (Martyred Intellectuals Day)
  Asad Chowdhury, poet, writer, translator and journalist
  Bipasha Hayat, Bangladeshi actress
  Buddhadeb Bosu, major Bengali writer of the mid-twentieth century, belonging to the Kollol age
  Chanchal Chowdhury, Bangladeshi actor
  Debabrata Basu, mathematical statistician
  Dino Shafeek, Bengali actor based in the United Kingdom
  Fakrul Alam, Bangladeshi academic, writer, and translator
  Fauzia Yasmin, Bangladeshi singer
  Ferdausi Rahman, eminent playback, ghazal and folk singer
  Ferdous Ahmed, Bangladeshi actor
  Ferdousi Mazumder, Bangladeshi actress
  Firoz Mahmud, Bangladeshi contemporary visual artist, painter, and creator
  Ghulam Murshid, author, researcher and journalist
  Golam Mustafa, Bangladeshi actor
  Hasnat Abdul Hye, Bangladesi writer and novelist
  Helal Hafiz, Bangladeshi poet
  Hosne Ara Shahed, Bengali writer and educationist
  Humayun Ahmed, Bengali novelist, short-story writer and filmmaker
  Humayun Azad, Bengali novelist, poet, essayist and professor
  Ilias Kanchan, Bangladeshi filmstar, actor and road-safety activist
  Kabir Chowdhury, academic, essayist, materialist, translator
  Kaiser Hamidul Haq, Bangladeshi poet, translator, essayist, critic and academic
  Khan Ataur Rahman, Bangladeshi film actor, director, producer, screenplay writer, music composer, and singer
  Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, poet, essayist, translator and editor from Bangladesh
  Kiran Chandra Roy, Bangladeshi baul and folk musician and songwriter.
  Maksudul Ahsan, artist
  Mobarak Hossain Khan, music researcher, surbahar player
  Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, popular sci-fi writer
  Munier Choudhury, playwright
  Murtaza Bashir, Bangladeshi painter
  Nilufar Yasmin, Bangladeshi singer
  Natyaguru Nurul Momen, playwright, director, belles letters writer, satirist, personal essayist, lawyer
  Qazi Anwar Hussain, author, publisher and translator
  Qazi Motahar Hossain, Bangladeshi author, scientist, statistician and journalist
  Rafiqun Nabi, Bangladeshi artist and cartoonist
  Ramendu Majumdar, Bangladeshi actor, stage director and theater producer and President of the International Theatre Institute
  Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, poet
  Sabina Yasmin, Bangladeshi singer
  Sara Zaker, theater and television actor, entrepreneur and social activist
  Sayeem Rana, Poet, Researcher, Musicologist, Music Director, National film Award 2014
  Serajul Islam Choudhury, literary critic, public intellectual, social analyst, historian, editor, and professor emeritus
  Shafiq Tuhin, Bangladeshi lyricist, music director and singer
  Shahidul Zahir, Bengladeshi novelist and short-story writer
  Shahidullah Kaiser, major Bengali novelist and Dhaka University professor, brutally murdered by Pakistani Army and local collaborators on 14 December 1971 (Martyred Intellectuals Day)
  Shahriar Kabir, Bangladeshi novelist, journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist
  Shamsur Rahman, Bengali poet, columnist and journalist
  Shishir Bhattacharjee, artist
  Shuvro Dev, Bangladeshi musician
  Suborna 
caption: Rafiqun Nabi, Bangladeshi artist and cartoonist
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